Sailing the Sea of Sleep
Considering the role of your mind in the nature of your sleep.
Discovering the New World
Discover the clarity that emerges from approaching sleep through relaxation, imagination, and emotion.
Liver and the Lack of Sleep
A guided visualization to connect you with your liver, to gain a perception of yourself and your environment viewed from a place of clarity and purity.
To Put You To Sleep
"Spontaneous fainting, an unexplained phenomenon, is a clue to the nature of consciousness... I guess 30% of us will instantly "faint" with nothing more than a touch and a few quick words. It's called 'rapid induction'..."
Becoming Lucid
"Over the years I’ve read much about lucid dreaming, but I’ve been frustrated that it’s mostly portrayed as an amusement park ride. Surely, there has to be more to it than spectacle and entertainment..."
Our Lack of Sleep
Many of the consequences of insufficient sleep are highlighted in Matthew Walker's 2017 book is titled, Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. The extracts I'm quoting come from his penultimate chapter, "Sleep and Society."
Season of Dreams
"Living systems, like us, engage our environment. We interact, express, modulate, and are modulated by our environment... We are not just 'subject to' or 'creatively imagining'; we do both. Their combination is how we control our world..."
The Reality of Illusion
This piece is about what we think is real and the difference between sensation and feeling, the worlds of imagination and dreams and making dreams real.
Sleep Authority, and Why We Don’t Have It
"One of the paradoxes of sleep is that the harder you try, the less you get. You cannot force your way into a sleeping state of mind..."
Interpretation of Dreams
"Reality consists of our assumptions about things we have not experienced. We fill in the blanks by social contract, seeing the same things in a world of which we're mostly unaware..."
The Path To Sleep
I've published the book the audiobook The Path to Sleep. The Path to Sleep leads you through 27 hypnotic meditations to integrate mind and body; paths of attention that underlie your thought patterns. I read the whole book once, and you repeat the practices to absorb the rhythms and patterns. The book is presented as an album, as music, so you can repeat the practices, which are separate tracks.
Tools For Sleep
"The relaxation necessary for entering sleep is a deep relaxation. It is a thorough relaxation of muscles throughout the body plus a relaxation of the mind. Ideally, this is a learned skill. Surprisingly, it is a skill many people have not learned. It's a process of becoming more aware..."